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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
#NEW MAY: Theresa May will be elected UK Prime Minister on Wednesday after her last remaining rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the race.
#EU FRIENDS: New statistics have shown that the value of Ireland’s exports to Belgium are greater than exports to the UK.
#PARIS: About 40 arrests were made and tear gas and water cannons were used by police to quell violence after last night’s Euro 2016 final.
‘You’re not moving in with Amy with those jocks. You’re not makin’ a holy show of me.’
A video of a Dublin mother ripping up her son’s boxer shorts is making waves online.
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Genuinely the end of an era in Irish broadcasting history. We all grew up watching or listening to him at some point. RIP.
Okay okay,we’ll leave it there..God speed Gaybo:-(
I still miss his morning radio show.
I still miss him presenting the Late Late Show.
He read a listeners letter so eloquently and presented a show with such professionalism. A far cry from the slap stick rehearsed interviews we have to suffer today.
Met him once and he was an absolute gentleman. After selfie he asked me to take pic of him and his friend which was very funny.
RIP
RIP Gay, you’d laugh if someone said it to your face, but you actually did the country some service.
I remember, watching live, when he rang a woman who was a competition winner, who said she hadn’t been watching the show as her daughter, who had sent in the entry, had died the previous day. These days it would go viral.
@Conoroconnor: I remember that too. The viewer won a car, and the girl was knocked down the day before. She thought it was a cruel wind up
Certainly would not have agreed with certain aspects of Gays political stance. In saying that as a presenter and host of Lyric fm there is no one who could hold you attention like he could. R.I.P.
RIP the uncle of our nation .
Role it there Colette… Good memories is what he left us.. Rip..
Just been watching the Trinity College clip of Gay being caught out by Mike Murphy on Murphy’s hidden camera show, I must say it cheered be up a bit after hearing the tragic news about Gay Byrne’s passing
R.I.P
R.I.P. Made it look easy. I have many painful memories of watching The Late Late as a teenager in the early 80s in the company of my parents, as certain taboo topics were debated. Sweet Jesus the embarrassment, screaming at him to stop . Great memories
I wonder if Eoghan Murphy will be one of the TD’s that show up at his Funeral, his Grandfather Russel Murphy embezzled 2 Million Pounds from Gay and others. R.I.P. Gay.
No way… The accountant who stole all Gay’s money is Eoghan Murphy’s grandad?
@bopter: yep.
Loved his interview with Padraig Flynn, talk about feeding him rope to hang himself, priceless bit of interviewing skill that few possess!!
A terrific broadcaster; now the nation has to endure tubs and darcy. Neither fit to make gaybo’s tea never mind replace him
RTE could scrap the current LLS and re run all of Gays episodes and still get more viewing figures. RIP Gay
@Graham Murphy Esq: As in a RTE GOLD?
And there’s one for everyone in the audience
@Colm Whelan: Death?
Patronising condescending mysogjnist ah sure he was great
@richard fennessy: Joe Duffy will certainly get mileage from this death..
All these memories flooding back..such a massive part of irish life late 80s early 90s.. Didnt seem like part of the establishment like the rte crowd now..
Was god in ireland back then..
There are many out there who didn’t like him as well, but who are people talking about, his broadcast persona or his personal persona as people can confuse both of them. But in the end it was his life, his decisions. I just feel there are too many in the public that are using his popularity in order to promote themselves with the public than to be human and I hate this with so called celebrity. The only thing that matters now is the grief his passing has caused and once his life was good and happy then what else can anyone wish for him then?
The entire nation is touched by ur passing uncle gaybo. A true legend and a true gent. Thanks for the memories. U are mr. Rte
RIP Gaybo. Thanks for everything.
RIP Gay, Will your family carry out your wish to be buried in a cardboard coffin?
My son who has been living in the US for many years and is 33 feels like me, that we have lost a member of our family: never realised how Gay was so close to all of us ordinary people in Ireland.
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